Going Clear

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief (2013) by Lawrence Wright. This book is a thoroughly researched, incisive and insightful study of Scientology -- all the way from L. Ron Hubbard's early days to the present day when celebrities like John Travolta and Tom Cruise profess to be adherents of the church. Wright demonstrates that Hubbard is a liar, that the Church of Scientology is a sham, and that membership in the church is like a voluntary prison sentence. It doesn't take much to convince me that Scientology is hooey, and this book provides an avalanche of evidence to that effect. It makes for some very fascinating reading, and taken all together it's a masterful work of nonfiction. Grade: A